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Symbian is an operating system (OS) and software platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition

The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first used in the Nokia N8.

Symbian OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd.^[4] It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed.


Symbian releases are styled Symbian^1, Symbian^2 etc. (vocalised as "Symbian one", "Symbian two").

Symbian^1, being the first release, forms the basis for the platform. It incorporates Symbian OS and S60 5th Edition (which is built on Symbian OS 9.4) and thus it was not made available in open source.
Symbian^2 was the first royalty-free version of Symbian.While portions of Symbian^2 are EPL licensed, most of the source code is under the proprietary SFL license and available only to members of the Symbian Foundation. On June 1, 2010, a number of Japanese companies including DoCoMo and Sharp announced smartphones using Symbian^2.

Symbian^3 was announced on 15 February 2010.It was designed to be a more ‘next generation’ smartphone platform. The Symbian^3 release introduced new features like a new 2D and 3D graphics architecture, UI improvements, and support for external displays via HDMI. It has single tap menus and up to three customizable homescreens. The Symbian^3 SDK (Software Development Kit) was released September 2010.
Six smartphones with the Symbian^3 operating system have been released so far; the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7-00, Nokia C7-00, Nokia E6, and Nokia X7.

In April 2011, an update to Symbian^3, known as 'Symbian Anna', was released by Nokia as part of the launch of the X7 and E6 smartphones. Symbian Anna includes such improvements as a new browser, a virtual keyboard in portrait orientation, and real-time homescreen scrolling. Nokia has indicated that the Anna update will be also be available for previous Symbian^3 devices such as the N8 and C7.

Symbian^3 and earlier have a native WebKit based browser; indeed, Symbian was the first mobile platform to make use of WebKit (in June 2005).
Nokia plans to introduce a new Qt-based browser as a free update for Symbian^3 devices

AND NOW GOTO NEXT GENERATION Symbian^4

Symbian^4 was expected to be released in the first half of 2011. However, Nokia announced in October 2010 that Symbian^4 will not ship in a separate release. Instead, improvements to Symbian will be delivered in software updates to all current Symbian^3 devices.

 Nokia recently presented the UI concept proposal for the future of Symbian OS i.e. Symbian^4.

However, these are only UI concept images and the final Symbian^4 experience will definitely be something quite different to this. Interestingly to date, Symbian is the world’s most popular mobile operating system, accounting for 50% of smartphone sales.